Today I am anticipating the arrival of my new Trail Running Shoes. I abhor the fact that through the evolution of civilization my feet have become weak, I talk a bit about this with my friend Keegan…humanity was never meant for rubber soles or for anything rubber.
I read a poem about anger, it was written by a Native American. Anger is a good thing, prophetic anger is needed, if you are not angry at the state of society then you are a slave to the fucking system which continues to colonialize your mind. You, as do I, come from the earth and will return to it. I do not need a King or a Democracy to dictate the way I live. I need to listen to the trees more or watch the clouds as the early Israelites did before David fucked up everything with his pursuit of military power and dictatorship.
I was at Great Seal yesterday on top of a ridge looking down upon Chillicothe. I thought of the prophets that used to walk these hills, Logan Elm and Tecumseh, I become filled with a rage, a rage that I am sure does not even come close to the rage they felt when the white men rapped and killed their land base, family, and culture. My skin, my kin’s blood stains this land, my tradition has farmed the shit out of the land around here, so much so that the rivers are not filled with mud, that the run off is suicidal….just so we can buy bull shit food from enormous grocery stores filled with shit. This friend is not life. I am rambling.
2018 Western States 100 Race Report
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1 Samuel 8
ReplyDeleteIsrael Asks for a King
1 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges for Israel. 2 The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba. 3 But his sons did not walk in his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.
4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead [a] us, such as all the other nations have."
6 But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."
10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle [b] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."
21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king."
Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Everyone go back to his town.